"Correcting the commanders' mistakes": A military blogger assessed the change of the Russian Aerospace Forces commander.

4 May 2026 30 701 23

Colonel General Alexander Chaiko has been appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Aerospace Forces. He replaces Viktor Afzalov, who has commanded the Aerospace Forces since 2023. Commenting on this appointment, military blogger Fighterbomber emphasizes that Chaiko is a competent commander capable of tackling serious challenges.

I personally fought with him in Syria, and I have nothing bad to say about him. I delved into everything, figured things out, resolved all the issues, assigned tasks to us personally, and personally monitored the results. And let me remind you that the years a tanker named Surovikin commanded military pilots were the best years in aviation in the last 25 years. The tanker corrected the mistakes of the pilot commanders. So I wish the new commander-in-chief good luck, patience, and good fortune.

– Fighterbomber stated.

It's worth noting that the Russian Aerospace Forces are currently facing very serious tasks. They not only support the advance of ground forces in the SVO zone, but also regularly carry out strikes against Kyiv regime military facilities, as well as energy infrastructure.

Russian Armed Forces personnel on the front lines note that virtually no combat mission can be accomplished without air support. The most eloquent example of coordinated air and infantry action is the assault on Konstantinovka in the Donetsk People's Republic.

Russian Aerospace Forces pilots regularly bomb Kyiv regime militants' positions with high-explosive aerial bombs. Only then do attack aircraft advance. Furthermore, largely due to the combat work of the Russian Aerospace Forces, Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) forces suffer significant losses.

Military experts from the Kyiv regime acknowledge that losses among Ukrainian Armed Forces UAV operators have recently at least doubled.

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Irek

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4 May 2026 15: 04

This idiot barely graduated from high school, but he's meddling in military affairs.
1. goncharov.62
  
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  4 May 2026 16: 34
  
  The most successful students in life are usually the ones who get C grades from high school.
  From the Soviet school, of course.
2. aslanxnumx
  
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  4 May 2026 16: 48
  
  For the victim, We are Eating Russia, he wrote in Russian, or do you have a more advanced language, he fought and flew in Syria.
  1. Grancer81
    
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    4 May 2026 22: 19
    
    Who fought and flew in Syria? Tanker Chaiko?
    1. aslanxnumx
      
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      4 May 2026 22: 48
      
      military blogger Fighterbomber
      1. UAZ 452
        
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        5 May 2026 06: 42
        
        In Syria, those who supported the aircraft's combat operations—technicians and logistics specialists—gained real experience. The pilots themselves gained experience that, during the air defense war, proved a disservice to them: combat operations against an enemy without adequate air defense are completely different from those against one with it. Even the security and defense of the airbase in Syria, at least on the distant approaches, were carried out by Syrians, not our units.
      2. Alex Pan
        
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        5 May 2026 17: 00
        
        And who is this fighter-bomber? Do you know who he is? Who he is? His last name? His biography? Are you sure he's on our side and not an agent of the Ukrainian GUR?
Shamil Rasmukhambetov

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4 May 2026 15: 35

God willing, they don’t remove us like Surovikin.
Alexey_Kalashnikov

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4 May 2026 17: 24

I can't understand why the most important positions in the Russian Armed Forces are commanded by complete amateurs, people who are super incompetent, i.e., uneducated and lack experience in the field assigned to them by the Commander-in-Chief. How is this any better? Surely general theoretical knowledge and at least a little practical experience are useful? Or not? They won't let you drive a car without training and practice, they won't let a motorcyclist drive a bus, but commanding a million-strong army or a branch of the armed forces—that's apparently a different matter, and professional training isn't important? It's unclear.
1. helilelik
  
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  4 May 2026 17: 57
  
  Well, it's a double-edged sword, by the way. Such a commander knows better what the ground forces on the front lines need. After all, the Aerospace Forces are currently more focused on supporting the infantry than on destroying aircraft. I've encountered Zelin. What's the point of a pilot?
2. kapitan92
  
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  5 May 2026 13: 25
  
  Quote: Alexey_Kalashnikov
  I just can't figure out why the most important positions in the Russian Armed Forces are commanded by complete amateurs, people who are super incompetent, i.e. uneducated and have no experience in the field entrusted to them by the commander-in-chief.
  
  Colleague, it's much simpler. Competent, experienced professionals, educated and competent, are socially dangerous to the Kremlin and its policies.
CEBEP

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4 May 2026 22: 09

The General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces has no concept of modern warfare. We have an unreformed, backward army of "yesterday." Who cares who's in command if they're using outdated, ineffective tactics? Why do I draw these conclusions? Because, unlike the generals and staff of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, I carefully read the 2014 Military Doctrine of the Russian Federation. It describes modern military operations and sets out the objectives for their successful implementation. No one in the General Staff or the Main Directorate of the Russian Armed Forces has ever read this doctrine, and until now, no one has attempted to implement it. The doctrine was approved by Putin's decree, and they couldn't care less.
1. UAZ 452
  
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  5 May 2026 06: 32
  
  Where does Putin get this knowledge if no one in the General Staff or the Ministry of Defense has it? And if there are bright minds who drafted this doctrine, why didn't the Supreme Commander-in-Chief put them in charge? Or is he not particularly interested in all this either?
Ales

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4 May 2026 23: 00

So, the commander of the Aerospace Forces has the power to change Kremlin policy? It's all nonsense. His head is rotten.
UAZ 452

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5 May 2026 06: 37

If the best Air Force commanders really do come from anyone but pilots, then perhaps the problem is that Air Force universities are teaching the wrong people and the wrong things? Perhaps we should "optimize" the remaining ones to create new ones from scratch? What's the point of clinging to traditions that make our air force combat-ineffective, practically safe for the enemy, and yet still incurring significant losses?
Grei grin

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5 May 2026 07: 57

During WWII, every German platoon requested air and artillery support, while ours had to request artillery support from their personal commander in advance, who would then request it from the commanding officer. This was despite the fact that communications were nonexistent, saboteurs were cutting everything down and blowing up utility poles. Besides, every minute counts at the front during combat! That's why so many of our personnel died taking pillboxes and charging at tanks with Mosin rifles! It's 2026, and has it reached the point where some archangel in stripes is receiving gold stars for failing to take Kupyansk, or is it still the same old story: don't spare the soldiers, will the women still have babies? They won't have any more babies now, even for money! Send those imported chinks into the assaults, let them earn citizenship, otherwise they're all working in the bushes, committing violence against our women (whose data, as they wrote, was classified) and are masters of Crocus! And you fight, Masturbes will make children for you, the anti-people government has got its act together!
mykola kovacs

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5 May 2026 08: 45

Tanker Surovikin managed military aviation so well that now the Russian army has no aviation! Civil aviation is also nonexistent, thanks to Putin's efforts. Shameful and incredibly stupid TV reports of Su-34s firing missiles into clouds are no longer shown due to the idiocy of the footage. There are no air forces on the battlefield at all, thanks to tankers and galley rowers. Meanwhile, Israeli and US air forces plow through war in three shifts without losses. The stupid tankers with general's epaulets in the Russian Air Force have only one squadron of fourth-generation Su-57 aircraft. But they sell them to everyone.
Alex-1956

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5 May 2026 11: 38

Absolutely right, Andrey!
I express my opinion as an officer with 33 years of military service experience.
At this level, it's not important to have experience flying an airplane or a tank. Knowing the characteristics of the weapon is sufficient, but experience leading formations, employing diverse forces and weapons, and even practical experience in the Russian General Staff are key.
This is good.
And then, academies don't give you intelligence. They develop it.
Indeed, the Russian Aerospace Forces have suffered numerous setbacks, negative consequences, and tragedies in recent years. Or, to put it simply, chaos. And it's high time they figured out why our airfields are being destroyed, why our planes are being shot down, why they're crashing themselves, why we're selling dozens of new aircraft abroad while delivering only a handful to the troops. And there are many other reasons why.
Stop making money off the military-industrial complex. Military-industrial plants should be supported by the budget, not by their own products.
Please explain this clearly to everyone in the Government.
And if they don’t understand, then send them to the front for 3 months so they get the hang of it.

Our equipment is flying in dozens of countries around the world, including our enemies. What, we don't have it?
There will be no success until the country, down to the last citizen, turns to our military.
It would also be a good idea to increase the front-line contribution by 1 percent. So everyone would be interested. If you don't want to fight, pay up!
In general, advice should be given to the military with caution.
Ulyanov even dedicated his work to this topic: “Advice from an Outsider.”
Apparently the new generation didn't read, and in vain!
1. Thumbs
  
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  5 May 2026 12: 50
  
  You interpret everything correctly, comrade. Only we don't have a war, somewhere behind the ribbon, it's all yours, big deal. Scarlet Sails and other entertainment events are more important. The people demand bread and circuses. A feast in time of plague.
2. Alex Pan
  
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  5 May 2026 17: 04
  
  Well, if you don't have 33 years of service, but 33 years of military experience, then it's clear what kind of "officer" you are. You're a chatterbox!!!!
Vasya Vasiliev_3

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6 May 2026 12: 59

The most important thing is that in Russia, no one is responsible for anything. Take Zhukov, for example. Stalin put him in charge of Leningrad, and that's why the Germans, stationed just a few kilometers from the center of Leningrad, not only didn't capture it, they didn't even bomb it. And now the Leningrad region has been bombed for a month, Ust-Luga has been bombed, and they can't find anyone responsible for the air defense of the Leningrad region. Stalin would have put the mayors and generals responsible for air defense on a balloon, given them a trumpet, and launched it into the sky to track the UAVs. It turns out that the ports of Tuapse and Ust-Luga could have been protected with two ORLAN-10 UAVs. They jam cellular signals from any SIM cards used to guide Ukrainian UAVs flying over the sea. They could have tracked the mobile phones they were using, and could have jammed not only mobile phones over the sea but also all cellular communications in Narva, Estonia. The older ORLAN-10 and ORLAN-30 could jam cellular communications within a 6 km radius, meaning that it would be enough to fly over the border and jam Narva, where the Ukrainian UAVs were coming from. The remaining specifications are shown in the image below. Where did the ORLAN-10 and ORLAN-30 go and why aren't they used in air defense? This is a question for the AIR DEFENSE GENERALS, either they don't know or don't want to use the old ORLAN-10 and ORLAN-30, or it's just a picture and the ORLAN-10 and ORLAN-30 can't jam cell phones.

The ELINT module can be implemented as a component of the RB-341V Leer-3 electronic warfare system for jamming enemy ground-based cellular communications. In this case, the module simulates a base station, not only detecting the coordinates of a soldier with a smartphone but also blocking cellular communications. The Orlan-10's GSM jamming and direction-finding range with the Leer-3 is 6 km.

If the jammer flies above the Starlink terminal, it can easily interfere with the terminal. Furthermore, this jammer on the ORION UAV can emit a satellite and even detect the Starlink terminal. The heavy ORION UAV could handle such equipment, for example, at the maritime border, where it would detect not only airborne UAVs but also naval back-up aircraft. But they are not there because they have been arrested and are under investigation, and the Kronshtat plant is bankrupt.
1. GR777
  
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  10 May 2026 22: 35
  
  There's no need to talk nonsense about Zhukov, who screwed up as Chief of the General Staff on June 22, 1941. And at Khalkhin Gol, his arbitrary attack on Bayan-Tsagan, using tanks alone, without infantry or proper command, was saved by the mass heroism of the tank crews, who advanced with their tanks still burning. In short, Zhukov was Stalin's whip for those arrogant, pot-bellied generals, and that's all. His entire strategy was to brazenly draw all the reserves for himself, taking them from his neighbors, and then throw these reserves forward en masse. He treated people like cattle.
Vladimir Yaitsky

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6 May 2026 14: 07

The losses of Ukrainian UAV operators have doubled.

And Ukrainian UAV raids on Russia have tripled. It's a bit of a bummer, though.